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How do you proceed to create a gorgeous fine and even application of colored pencil ? (without using blender pencil or blending solution: only colored pencil, paper and your skill ).
I use Polychromos, Pablo and Luminance and I want to achieve smooth, flawless texture. I use pencils with very sharp points.

How do you hold your pencil and what kind of strokes do you use ? I think there are several ways to obtain good results.
I use elliptical motions and work around in a circular way but I am not entirely satisfied by my results (and unfortunately for me, I am a perfectionist).

People do that with patience and a lot of pressure(I avoid using any pressure as a vampire avoids the sun).

But you should ask yourself.. why you want to achieve that? What distance your work is supposed to be gazed upon? 20 cm? then people might notice the under paper.. 2 meters? Then a cover that would look like swiss cheese at point blank will look perfect smooth at that range.

Of course it is your decision, but one must point that different mediums have different strengths. When you want to get a smooth perfect cover, paint is far superior (and you can go over it with colored pencil later). Embracing your medium peculiarities usually makes working with it less frustrating.

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"If brute force does not solve your problem, then you are not using enough!"

I certainly would not bother using pencil technique alone. Colour pencil is slow enough as it is. Solvents and burnishing speed up the process and are perfectly legitimate tools.

The paper used is probably just as, or more important than technique if you just want to use pencils strokes alone.

Or you can just like the way unburnished pencil works look and enjoy the little light speckles like some of us

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"If brute force does not solve your problem, then you are not using enough!"

It horses for courses, depends on the paper you use and even the pencil and what look you want to achieve. Im working on Stonehenge right now and some pencil colours in th FC brand go on more smoothly than others. The Zest-it doesnt blend as well on this paper so I used a brush to try and get it deeper into the tooth but it also lifts the lead. I shall just accept the grainier look and at a few feet away it all looks smooth. So like Tiago said it depends!

And yes, I have a real preference for unburnished pencil but I don't want to have colored pencil strokes noticeable

That is less related to blending and more about how you apply the color. Use several thin layers and the strokes will be invisible.

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"If brute force does not solve your problem, then you are not using enough!"

I like to use very small circle type strokes, many light layers, keeping even pressure and super sharp pencil points. It takes a long time to get that smooth look but well worth it in my opinion.
I personally do like to use a colorless blender pencil, but it can still be achieved with just colored pencils.

Paper has hills and valleys. The key to smooth layering is to get that colored pencil in the valleys without damaging the hills. There are a number of ways to do that from using a stiff brush to push it in, OMS (odorless mineral spirits), blending powder, etc. Frankly my favorite is to use a lighter color of the same hue and lots of light layering. You crush the hills(tooth) you can not add more layers..